The USA Seafood That Kills 100 Americans a Year!!

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🇺🇸MARYLAND

1. WHITE STONE OYSTER COMPANY
ADDRESS: 202 Rte 661, White Stone, VA 22578, United States
INTERVIEWEE: Tom Perry - Oyster farmer & CEO White Stone Oyster Company

🇺🇸RAW OYSTER: Shuck the oyster and eat it.

🇺🇸RAW OYSTER WITH LEMON AND HOT SAUCE (Laotian fish sauce): Shuck the oyster, squeeze lemon, and add hot sauce

🇺🇸RAW OYSTER WITH CAVIAR (SMOKED TROUT ROE): Shuck the oyster and add caviar on top. Eat with champagne.
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2. OYSTER SEED HOLDINGS, INC
ADDRESS: 425 Callis Wharf Rd, Hudgins, VA, United States
INTERVIEWEES: Mike Congrove (President/Owner) | Scott Dinning (Chef)

🇺🇸OYSTER BANH MI - OYSTER WITH VIETNAMESE BREAD: Coat shucked oysters in Egg and Cajun Seasoning, then flour. Deep-fry until golden and crispy. Toast Banh Mi and place fried oysters on it. Top with pickled vegetables, cilantro, and sauces.

💸PRICE: $13.00

🇺🇸ROASTED OYSTERS SERVED WITH BUTTER 3 WAYS - CHIPOTLE BOURBON, GARLIC HERB & SWEET CHILI: Shuck the oysters and add specific butter to each (chipotle bourbon, garlic herb, sweet chili). Roast for about 5 minutes until the butter has melted. Plate on a stainless steel tray with rock salt.

💸PRICE: $15 for 12
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3. THE BOATHOUSE AT ROCKETTS LANDING
ADDRESS: 4708 E Old Main St, Richmond, VA, United States

🇺🇸ROASTED OYSTERS WITH HOLLANDAISE: Shuck the oysters, top with hollandaise sauce, and place in the pizza oven for a few minutes. Remove and finish with a topping of caviar.

💸PRICE: $21

🇺🇸OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER: Shuck the oysters. Add Rockefeller mix (butter, celery, onions, garlic, heavy cream, spinach). Top with bacon bits.

💸PRICE: $18

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[draon]

Something to consider is that Oysters are filter feeders, so they clean a massive amount of water, over fishing basically removes them from the environment causing it to literally break down and species that lives there disappears within a decade or two.

The cleaner the water from the filtering process the more sunlight reaches the bottom which helps more species thrive.

[benfranklin]

I haven't eaten raw oysters since 2010....I made a deal with God and I intend to keep it. After decades of eating raw oysters at about every oyster bar I could find, I had "the bad oyster" one night out in summer 2010. I spent the night on my bathroom floor praying to live as it was coming out both ends. I made a deal with God that if he got me through the night I would never eat another raw oyster...so far I've kept the promise.

[benz]

“Show the other oysters what’s up”
I totally LOL’d

[herringbone]

The Bay once was just laden with oysters everywhere they could grow. There were oyster mountains in deeper water. They were harvested so heavily the bay was almost ruined.
I remember even in the 70s they harvested so many they gave the shells away free by the truck load from sea food plants. My grandfather had an oyster shell drive way at his Maryland home. I recall the driveway reeked of rotten fish for a while before the odor went away. The shells were good driveway alternative to gravel, they broke and compacted themselves as you used it and became a very good surface after a couple years. Those days are gone forever.

[megagem]

For being such a jokester, you can really be extremely respectful and professional And I appreciate that

[markheard]

In the 1980s, there was a problem of people dying and losing limbs from eating raw oysters. They found out that people who consumed alcohol before and during they were fine. The people that did not drink were the ones who were getting sick and dying and losing lens.

[mercster]

"We demand excellence here in the United States." 😂 Damn right! Thanks Sonny. Next episode: Pelican meat.

[ericsbuell]

Great viewing as always, I'm sixty-four now and in the West of Scotland's rich waters we used to put our mussels, clabbydhu's (giant mussels) and other bivalves into buckets filled with the sea water and flour added so the flour flushed out the digestive system.
Have a look at the Oregon State University's method of Enhanced Depuration Researchers, led by Professor Yi-Cheng Su who tweaked the depuration process to improve its effectiveness.

A similar technique has been used in the United Kingdom for decades now for small to industrial solutions.
But the attention to detail in the farmer here will be a thing to learn from and maybe improve for sustainability.
Thanks to ALL who made this possible.

[Peg]

You make me want seafood now! That area on the water looks so beautiful and peaceful! ❤😊🦪

[ortegonadam]

16:00 hands down the funniest part... I love me some underground hot sauce dealers lol😂

[chinobandito]

That’s why i only eat oysters in the winter or early spring. Plus they’re much more fatter and sweeter then. Summer oysters are skinnier and prone to diseases in warmer temps and that’s why so many people get seafood poisoning during the summer seasons.

[frankmeyer]

Loved this episode! I grew up in coastal central florida and now live in south eastern coastal Virginia and oysters are my favorite! A bushel of oysters is a party/bbq staple for my family. Glad you covered the virginia oyster industry, I was just at an oyster bar in Virginia beach a couple days ago eating oysters from all over the region.

[SamAaronn]

Virginia is currently the largest producer of oysters in the United States, but all oyster sales annually only make up ~5% of our $1.1B seafood market (~$60m in oyster sales annaully). Oysters are quite common here in Virginia, but in reality they account for very little of our economy (There's ~134 Oyster farms inside virginia as of January 2024). The entire agricultural industry in Virginia has an economic impact of $82.3B meaning Oysters account for 0.073% of the annual agricultural value.

[potatostarch-hi]

11:43 sunny pulls outs his phone to check on cucumber kill rate to reinforce his fear of cucumbers. kidding

[paulhero]

Us Lao and other South East Asian people call that crack sauce! Dab some rare steak slices in that sauce. Sap lai lai! (It's very tasty!)

[democracyfan]

I live in North Bay (SF) and regularly eat raw oysters. Hog Island has some great oysters. They're harvested in Tomales Bay or up along the Oregon Coast. Ice cold water that creates delicious, healthy oysters. I avoid Gulf Coast and any warm water oysters like the plague. Warm water raises the potential for vibrio significantly. My nephew ate some bad Gulf oysters over 20 years ago and his digestive system still hasn't completely recovered.

[Marine_Oyster_farmer]

As an oyster farmer in Texas, it’s great to see coverage of oyster mariculture!!

[lucianowillemse]

You should try Namibian oysters if you ever swing around here again, as you did not really visit our coast when you were here.

[jman]

When I was a kid, we always use to say that the only time to eat oysters was in a month with an "r" in its spelling. I live in the north Florida panhandle, where the late fall and winters are usually pretty chilly, overall. And we have easy access to a bay that use to harvest oysters. So, they were always cold that time of year--- September through April. The oyster bars were never open from May to August. It's only been in the last couple of decades that oysters on the half shell are available year round around here. I still try to hold to the month with an R rule.